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Chapter 52 The Impersonal Verb: What is IT?. Necesse esse Impersonal verb phrase Necesse is an indeclinable adjective Esse can be any tense It is necessary.

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1 Chapter 52 The Impersonal Verb: What is IT?

2 Necesse esse Impersonal verb phrase Necesse is an indeclinable adjective Esse can be any tense It is necessary for someone (dative case) to do something (complementary infinitive). Necesse erat Corneliis statim proficisci. It was necessary for the Cornelians to set out immediately.

3 Licere When one receives a drivers LICENSE, one is ALLOWED to drive legally. Licere can be any tense, but must be in 3 rd person singular (remember IT is impersonal) It is allowed for someone (dative case) to do something (complementary infinitive). Licet pueris ire ad ludum. It is allowed for the boys to go to school. OR The boys MAY (they have permission) go to school.

4 Placere Sometimes it is difficult to PLACATE someone who is difficult to PLEASE. IT is sometimes impersonal It is pleasing to someone (dative). Ire ad ludum placet Sexto To go to school is pleasing to Sextus. OR It is pleasing to Sextus to go to school. It was decided/resolved (perfect tense) that something happen (subjunctive verb clause). Placuit ne Cornelia ituram esse ad ludum. It was decided that Cornelia would not go to school.

5 Decere If something is DECENT, it means that it FITS into society’s expectations. It is fitting OR it is becoming (as in something attractive or appropriate, not something about to be) that an a person (accusative case) do something (infinitive). Non decet puellam ire ad ludum. It is not fitting that a girl go to school. OR A girl should not go to school.

6 Oportere To wait for an OPPORTUNE moment to ask for something is to wait for the most FITTING moment. It is fitting that someone (accusative) do something (infinitive). Decet Cornelium iter facere Romam. It is fitting that Cornelius journey to Rome. OR Cornelius ought (not just appropriate, but somewhat obligatory) to journey to Rome.

7 Taedere An action is TEDIOUS when it becomes BORING. It makes someone (accusative) tired of something (genitive). OR The something (genitive) bores someone (accusative). Taesum est Corneliam ludorum. (notice how this verb in perfect tense acts as a deponent verb) It made Cornelia tired of the games. OR The games bored Cornelia.

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